A new era of undersea exploration began in 1943 when
the young French naval officers J.Y. Cousteau and Philippe Tailliez, and the
great civilian diver Frédéric Dumas, plunged into the Mediterranean with the
first aqualung, co-invented by Cousteau.
In this fascinating report, Cousteau and Dumas tell what it
is like to be 'menfish' swimming in the deep twilight zone with sharks, mantas,
morays, whales, and octopi. They tell of exploring sunken ships and of the
treasures they brought up. They describe ventures into an inland water cave
that all but claimed their lives, and their crazy human-guinea-pig experiment
with underwater explosions. Cousteau writes brilliantly of his audacious
50-fathom dive into the zone of rapture, where divers become like drunken gods;
and of the 396-foot dive that took a brave companion's life.
Cousteau, Dumas, and their courageous teams of divers have
used their new techniques of exploration to make important discoveries in
almost every branch of science. In The Silent World they share with us the
greatest undersea experience men have ever had.
Description on the back of the book
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